Bawling on the Dancefloor.

It's normal to cry your eyes out on your birthday, right?

Listen. I balled my eyes out in the middle of the dance floor on my birthday. Ms. Nix decided to recite a sermon from her dj booth pulpit, all about her love for me. That girl may come off quiet at times, but trust me she is paying attention. And banking all our experiences in her massively artistic brain. I don’t know if she’ll ever understand what that moment did for me. She asked everyone to make noise if I touched their lives in some way. The uproar was deafening. I felt everyone’s love piercing into me, and I just lost it. The tears enveloped. It’s no secret 2024 was one of the worst years of my life and in that moment I had never felt so vulnerable and so held.

In the coming days, I noticed something resurrected in me. A strength I thought I had lost, was softly peeping back.